Upper Mississippi Land Acquisition Act (5 ILCS 575/)

Chapter 5 — General Provisions

State Land

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Upper Mississippi Land Acquisition Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

Consent of the State of Illinois is given to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, gift or lease of such areas, of land or water, or of land and water in Illinois as the United States may deem necessary for the establishment of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge in accordance with the Act of Congress approved June 7, 1924. The State of Illinois retains concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over such areas in the matter of the service thereon of all civil and criminal process issuing under the authority of the State of Illinois and in the matter of salvaging fish taken from such overflowed areas.

(Source: Laws 1925, p. 608.)